Re: [Cz-L] The restitution effort

Thank you Andy for your efforts. You are a man
of "no sooner said than done".
I will write to all the American officials as well.

Mimi

Quoting andy halmay <andy_venivici_at_yahoo.com>:

> Re: Restitution of Cz property.  As promised, I?ve started the effort
> by identifying  the powers in Canada and the U.S. which provide aid
> to the Ukraine so as to confront them with the following:
>  
> 1. Most former Communist states in Eastern Europe have instituted
> programs which return in one way or another personal property, i.e.
> real estate, confiscated by Communist administrations ? but the
> Ukraine has not.
>  
>  2. The U.S. has given the Ukraine roughly $2 billion in the past
> decade while Canada has contributed in the hundreds of millions.
>  
> 3. There are many of us living in the U.S. and Canada who are not
> happy to see our tax dollars going to the Ukraine while this country
> illegally refuses to return our homes or compensate us. 
>  
> The Canadian contact list will consist of the Prime Minister, Stephen
> Harper; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Baird; and the Minister
> of International Co-operation, Julian Fantino, who oversees CIDA, the
> Canadian International Development Agency.
>  
> The U.S. list is far bigger and more complex ? The U.S. Senate
> Committee on Foreign Relations with 18 members plus the Subcommittee
> on European Affairs; The U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs with
> 45 members and the United States Agency for International
> Development, (USAID)
>  
> In the next few days I?ll track down the email addresses of the
> various members of the above which I will be happy to forward to any
> of you should you want to also contact them.
>  
> Like we all agree, the chance for any results are very small, at
> least in our lifetime.  I'm thinking of also sending copies to the
> powers in the Ukraine which might find them starting to worry about
> losing future aid which, in turn, might find them changing their
> attitude.
>  
> Keep your fingers crossed.
>  
> Andy
>
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